THE IMPLEMENTATION OF INDONESIA’S CHILD FRIENDLY SCHOOL POLICY BASED ON ENVIRONMENT IN THE COASTAL TOURIST AREA OF GUNUNGKIDUL, INDONESIA

Abstract

Child-friendly school policy in the tourism area need to be developed as an effort to overcome the social economic problems faced by children in line with the development of tourism. This study aimed at implementing the policy of Child Friendly School Policy in the coastal tourism area at district of Gunungkidul, Indonesia, where children’s development is identified as being at great risk. This policy was originally contained in government regulation of women empowerment and child protection number 8 in 2014 and was then formulated into education policy. Qualitative descriptive data were collected by a process of focus group discussion and observation. The results showed the implementation of child-friendly school policy requires school regulations with contextual policies and programs. Parents and communities need to synergic cooperation in implementing the child-friendly school policy. The child-friendly school policy was formulated through: 1) mobilizing some stakeholders i.e. parents, community leaders, teachers, principals and school superintendents and education departments that have a significant role in the development of child-friendly school policies; 2) considering some aspects, i.e. the characteristics of the coastal tourist area, the aspect of natural environmental conditions, socio-cultural society, political culture and power, cultural, economic, employment and labour, and the information and communication technology, and; 3) implementing school-based management which required the participation of the school community in the education of the children. It could be concluded that parents and the community have important role in developing child friendly school.

Keywords

• policy education
• child friendly school
• coastal tourism area
• environment
• primary school